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Alistair Lexden (then Alistair Cooke) wrote to The Daily Telegraph about Afghanistan in September 2001. The paper asked him to reflect in a further letter on...

The following letter was published in The New Statesman on 10 September. Philip Collins (The Public Square, 27 August) states that Wellington “became prime...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 3 September. SIR - Charles Moore (Notebook, August 31) is right to castigate the playwright who has...

Ted Dexter, a memorable England cricket captain in the early 1960s, had an unfortunate encounter with the electorate in a Cardiff seat at the 1964 general...

Around a thousand books have been written about him, and yet Churchill still lacks a really satisfactory biography. That is partly because his life had so many...

When this year’s A-level results were published on 10 August, the success of independent schools was greeted sourly in the Daily Mail. ‘Fury over Grade Gap’, it...

There are memorial shields in the House of Commons commemorating MPs who have been killed in action or by terrorists. One is missing. A campaign has been...

As the Olympic Games in Tokyo ended after many memorable British successes, Alistair Lexden recalled the very first medals won for Britain in the modern Games...

One of the most widely read historians of his time, Arthur Bryant, continued to write successful books in old age, and to enjoy a very active sex life with a...